Kapo (concentration Camp) - Usage After 1945

Usage After 1945

This role has been described in many books, among them Primo Levi's If This Is a Man (Also known as "survival in Auschwitz") and Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, the latter treating it from a psychiatrist's standpoint. It is also mentioned in Elie Wiesel's autobiography Night, and in Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus II, and is featured in the Gillo Pontecorvo movie Kapò.

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